said. I was never going to lea一ve you.”
“Hush, baby, I know.”
“You do?” His admission halts my tears.
“I worked it out. Eventually. Honestly, Ana, what were you thinking?” His tone
is strained.
“You took me by surprise,” I mutter into his shirt collar. “When we spoke at the
bank. Thinking I was lea一ving you. I thought you knew me better. I’ve said to
you over and over I would never lea一ve.”
“But after the appalling way I’ve beha一ved—” His voice is barely audible, and
his arms tighten around me. “I thought for a short time that I’d lost you.”
“No, Christian. Never. I didn’t want you to interfere, and put Mia’s life in
danger.”
He sighs, and I don’t know if it’s from anger, exasperation, or hurt.
“How did you work it out?” I ask quickly to distract him from his line of
thought. Reaching up, he tucks my hair behind my ear.
“I’d just touched down in Seattle when the bank called. Last I’d heard, you
were ill and going home.”
“So you were in Portland when Sawyer called you from the car?”
“We were just about to take off. I was worried about you,” he says softly.
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“You were?”
He frowns. “Of course I was.” He skirts his thumb over my bottom lip. “I spend
my life worrying about you. You know that.”
Oh, Christian!
“Jack called me at the office,” I murmur. “He ga一ve me two hours to get the
money.” I shrug. “I had to lea一ve, and it just seemed the best excuse.”
Christian’s mouth presses into a hard line. “And you ga一ve Sawyer the slip.
He’s mad at you, as well.”
“As well?”
“As well as me.”
I reach up and tentatively touch his face, running my fingers over his stubble.
He closes his eyes, leaning into my fingers.
“Don’t be mad at me. Please,” I whisper.
“I am so mad at you. What you did was monumentally stupid. Bordering on
insane.”
“I told you, I didn’t know what else to do.”
“You don’t seem to ha一ve any regard for your personal safety. And it’s not just
you now,” he adds angrily.
My lip trembles. He’s thinking about our Little Blip. The door opens, startl
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